"Mere ideals are the cheapest things in life. The more ideals a man has the more contemptible he is if the matter ends there, if there is no courage shown, no privations undergone, no scars contracted in the effort to get them realized." William James

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Lions, Tigers, and Commies oh my!

So I made it to the desert safely but along the way I had a funny thing happen. We started to fly over the ocean but had to turn back due to strong weather. So instead of flying back to the states we flew to Canada for a brief layover. As we entered the airport I saw about 10 people wearing Che Guevera shirts and berets with red stars pinned to them. Turns out it was a group of Russian Communists returning from a fun-filled trip to Cuba. Now they weren't too happy to see a company of American soldiers, and certainly were not happy about the idea of having their picture taken with one of them so they left a few minutes after we got there. I got to thinking about how ignorant people have to be to still follow and worship famous Communist leaders. Not only have they killed millions of people but we have fought to stop the spread of Communism numerous times. Anyrate it was ironic to be traveling to Iraq and have to stop and see a group of Castro loving Commies along the way. All is well in the desert and I should start posting more regularly in a couple of weeks. Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers.

Good to hear you made it safely. The world is full of surprises. What people used to be ashamed of and snuck around behind closed doors to do, they now do openly with much arrogance. Does that make the world more free and tolerant or just dumber and more dangerous. Hope you felt proud and thankful to be in the US Army rather than trying to get attention drawn to your pointy stars and pointy heads to match! Please take care of yourselves and remember safety first! We are proud of you and grateful for what you are doing, T.F Boggs and crew. Thanks for the interesting story of the commies. We'll keep a close lookout for them and similar types around here. Be thinking of you.

Hey Bogginator!Glad to hear that you made it safely! Very interesting about the communists! I agree with what A&N said. Look out for those lions and tigers as well! Remember how Daniel dealt with the lions when you are "dealing" with the terrorists as you travel down the yellow sand road. I have a request---if you have time in your next (or any) blog, will you comment on the morale of the men in your unit? Just if you want to. If you have a mailing adress you wouldn't mind posting also we will send goodies for you and your buddies. You are doing great Boggs! Keep it up! Be safe.

Happy Thanksgiveing t.f. boggs. We will raise our iced tea glasses in a toast to you and your buddies tonight, to your safety and sucess. We are thankful for you all this day and every day. Get us an address so we can send you some goodies and what kind of music do you like and do you have a dvd or cd player? Give us some clues as to what you all would like to have and haven't got. Take care of yourself as best you can! You're the best! Love from home!

Hey TF,Just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you will realize how thankful so many are for our troops and the difficult job you do to keep us safe. Personally you make me proud to be an American. Thank you, and be safe. Everybody who comes to the coffee counter says "Hey Boggs". We are ALL thinking of you, and waiting for your next blog.

Thanks for writing guys. I have been off training these past couple of days and have not been able to get to a computer. I hope everyone had a good thanksgiving. If I could get your email addresses then I will send you my address to the camp I am at so you could send some stuff. You guys are too nice.

TF Boggs,Alright!! Now you are talking although we are sure packages are slow now they will speed back up soon. Will get what you might need off as soon as we hear from you. Our email is annfawnlawn@aol.com. Email us your address and any requests and make our day. Thanks TF for all you fellas do and are over there! Stay safe.

Looking forward to the address and list of wanted items. Promise we won't send you any of Bubba's home made bisquits. Howevet they might be good to throw at the enemy. His brownies are good but we won't send you any of those either. Just let us know and your wish will be our command here at the coffee counter. Once again we raise our cups to you and the fellas. Take care of yourself. It was good to see your posting and know you are okay. g'nite Boggs.neatie36@yahoo.com

Boggs, I just found your site. It's Adam from soph dorm, my roomate Pat just left today, his company is cross-training to MP's and going to Germany for 12-18 months. Good to read your comments, and I'm not supprised your back in the desert again. I'm still stateside doing shorter deployments in the Air Guard. Well I'll keep checking out this site man. Keep you head up, hope your a sarge by now!

Since we haven't heard from you for a while just thought we would send a comment to say we hope all is well with you and your readers out here are thinking of you in these times when you are doing the dirty dangerous work. Even when you are too busy to write us your great blogs we care what is going on with you t.f.boggs. Please know that we are concerned for you and taking care of our part of the home front. Your faithful readers.

I think some of you were curious to see pictures of my brother...well you can see a few of him on my faux-blog. I posted them for him so he could post them on his, but I guess he is a little busy these days. The pics are on the unecessaryblog.blogspot.com if you were wondering. They are of him the last time he was there.

Adam good to hear from you. I have not been able to get on too much lately but I will be posting more regularly now and will get pics up as soon as I figure it out. I am a sarge now and I hope you are moving up too. I look forward to hearing from you.

About Me

This blog contains the archived posts from my second deployment to Iraq with the army. Since returning home in late 2006 I started a new website that can be found at www.voxveterana.com. Stop by and visit the new site and read the posts here in your spare time.